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We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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All Americans should be deeply troubled by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. We've seen such tragedies far too many times, and our hearts go out to the families and communities who've suffered such a painful loss.
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I think that what is true is that the Russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. And it could be another country in the future.
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Weapons of war have no place on our streets.
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America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past.
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We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools.
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If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.
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We live in a complex world and at a challenging time.
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My finely honed political instincts tell me that almost nobody believes that they should be paying higher taxes.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become peculiar.
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We've got to change our regulatory system.
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Certainly I've appreciated Angela Merkel as a partner.
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There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding.
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It's up to [Angela Merkel] whether she wants to stand again and then ultimately, it'll be up to the German people to decide what the future holds. If I were here and I were German and I had a vote, I might support her.
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Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race.
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Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground.
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If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.
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Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves.
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The biggest threat that we face right now is not a nuclear missile coming over the skies. It's in a suitcase. This is why the issue of nuclear proliferation is so important. It is the - the biggest threat to the United States is a terrorist getting their hands on nuclear weapons.
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